You In Christ and Christ in You

We are on lesson 27. And again, like I said, we're going to do a little bit of a tag team. I just want to finish up a couple of things. It is number 8 on Genesis. Maybe just a minute on Kings again, just because they tie in. And again, one of the things we're trying to do, or what I tried to do last week, was when Mike put these verses together, a lot of times we get lost in the forest and we can't see the forest through the trees type thing.

So trying to put these all together, just position, or difference between Old Testament and New Testament believers, and just the differences between that. and some thoughts to direct us, as in the King's passage, and this was the one with the Queen of Sheba, remember, and she comes up to see Solomon, and she, basically to see, because it controlled the She was a ruler of the Sabians, and this was a main travel or caravan route through the Gulf of Aqaba.

And so she wanted to see who this Solomon was. So she'd had reports of it. But I love in the verses in 1 Kings 10, 1 through 9, the one after she comes up and she actually enters in and sees Solomon and discovers all about Solomon. In verse 5, after she went in, up to the house of the Lord, then there was no more spirit in her. Then in verse 7, nevertheless I did not believe the reports until I came and my eyes had seen it, and behold, the half was not told to me. You exceed in wisdom and prosperity, and prosperity the report which I heard. So that what took her spirit away was, you know, she was all hepped up to see Solomon. She gets in, she actually enters in and sees, and it's more than she can even understand. Her spirit was taken away. It was like, whoa. The reports were great. And I can't even imagine when she gets there, she couldn't even imagine how great the wisdom of Solomon was.

So the lesson for us is, are we like the Queen of Sheba with the Lord? We hear great reports of the Lord, but we never enter in. We don't have that breath taken away where, wow, So, we looked at that, and I said, many contemporary Christians do the same things as the Queen of Sheba. They don't believe or go in to see the greatness of the Lord. They only hear the reports, but do not go in and see.

So, going on, let's move on to Genesis 50, and I think I started that last time, and I really like this one. This one I have a lot of personal applications with. And I've used it, and I think for contemporary Christianity, I think it's important for us to get the lessons of this. Genesis 50, 15 through 21.

And this is about Joseph and his brothers. And this is after 17 years. This isn't just when they found out that Joseph was the ruler and that his brothers then are in. This is 17 years after living under Joseph's care. and taking care of him. This is in Genesis 50, 15 through 21.

When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, what if Joseph bears a grudge against us and pays us back in full for all the wrong which we did him? So they sent a message to Joseph, saying, your father charged before he died, saying, thus you shall say to Joseph, please forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, for they did you wrong. They're nervous. They're trying anything. We just want to make it perfectly clear to you, Joseph. This is what Dad said before he died. They're nervous.

And now please forgive the transgressions of your servants, of the God of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke to him. Then his brothers also came and fell down before him and said, Behold, we are your servants. But Joseph said to them, Do not be afraid, for I am in God's place. As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. So therefore, do not be afraid. I will provide for you and your little ones." So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. This is great. 17 years they've been recipients of Joseph's bounty, and every day they've been receiving from him.

But did they know him? No, it's evident by, they were thinking, you know, as soon as dad's gone, the hammer's going to fall. You know, it's only because dad's around here that he's not going to have repayment for all the evil, throwing him in the pit, selling him to slavery, telling dad, you know, Joseph was dead, all these things. Once dad's gone, that protective shield's gone and we're hammered. So they didn't know him. They had been 17 years under his care. And they just thought, once dad's gone, the hatchet's going to come down and we're going to be hammered.

So do we do the same thing with the Lord today? Do we, under his blessings, daily blessings, care, great things with your dad, all these things, daily care, But do we know Him, the Lord? A lot of times I say, is the Lord just waiting to put the hammer down on me?

Is He ready just to, once I do something, He's going to pound me? Is that the way you feel sometimes? I confess that a lot of times I think, He's going to child train me. he's going to thump me. The minute I step out of line, he's going to smack me, put me back.

Is that the right thought? No, and I confess that. I do that. Over the last couple of years, I've thought that. I've really appreciated the growth, and yet every time I start feeling, maybe this is humbling, probably what the Lord's doing to me, but I thought that as soon as things feel really good, Things are going great. I just wait. I suddenly get this feeling that if I just step out of line for one second, Courtney, you're going to get smacked.

How long is that? Don't you think we all do that? I don't know. I don't know. Is that something you guys feel or is it, you know, yes, no? You know, it's interesting as you say that because as a young believer and not really understanding the identification truths, I had more of a mindset that way.

But it's interesting, now it seems like you think the Lord should be blessing you all the time. So if things go bad, you start thinking, where are you? Oh yeah, on the flip side. That's the other side. But then, what does that say about you? Or what are you thinking? Who knows that it's all about me? That's it. And this goes to our identification and grace. And this really hits hard, is the grace side. Unmerited. What do you need to do to have Him bless you more? Who's that focusing on?

I do that too. I've got to do this to make the Lord happy. I don't know how long, I've confessed, I'm a type A-er. I'll go out and slay the world. I go after it. You give me a challenge, you pick crew, all these things I've talked about, I'm there. I keep thinking of things, it's so long I did things, and I think, boy, if I do this, the Lord's just going to smile on me a little bit, because Courtney, you did that. How stupid, how stupid is that? for me to think that way. I asked this question, I think it was last week when I did it.

Remember when we went through the Isaiah verse, remember where he comes with the coal, and I'm not worthy of speaking, so Jeroboam kind of touches his lips, and I'm of unclean lips, and I asked, do you feel that way? Sometimes you're just not, you're of unclean lips, you don't feel worthy to be there. Is that right? No. That's what I was telling you. You should not feel that way.

What is it that you need to do that you need to do to feel worthy? So you don't need to have your lips touched and you're feeling like you're able to be present. What is it that you need to do? What extra do you need to do? You all said you didn't feel worthy, so what is it you need to do? Just believe.

Yeah. But I mean, what extra, I mean, is there something extra you need to do to make yourself worthy to be in the presence of the Lord? No. This is what, you know, sometimes I think, you know, no, we're supposed to feel humble, you know, we're just supposed to, you know, like with John and the vision, you know, suddenly he's down on the ground, his first thing he's doing, he's on the floor.

He said, stand up, stand up. And I said, what is it that you need to do to feel worthy? What extra do you need to do? Give me the extra thing you need to do to feel worthy. To be in the presence of the Lord. Nothing. Nothing. And I'll get into this where I want to finish this one. You know, there are a lot of things with what the Lord does in your life.

There's so many things, and I've gone through... Bonnie can identify a little bit with this, or maybe... I was an elder in another church, and a lot of things went on transpired. Things changed, did a lot of things. Didn't want to be divisive, anything, and a lot of things happened, and kind of osmosis out of there. That was very tough. As you're an elder, you are a shepherd of the sheep. And you have an affinity for that body. And when things happen to that body, it hurts. It hurts tremendously. That was probably the toughest time of my life.

But looking back on it, it got me to a place here. where the identification truths, the growth that I've had has been unparalleled compared to 20 years of good teaching, but not to the identification truths, not to what we're learning in grace. And I praise the Lord for that. I look back and what man or whatever meant for harm, God meant for good. And I truly identify with this.

Think of this in your life, though. All the things that happen in your life. Is God just smacking you just because? And can you apply this to whatever's going on in your life? You may think man or whoever is meaning it for evil. But does God mean it for good? in whatever you're going through. Whatever.

And I really take hold of that. Because, I think I told you, I'm on board with Directions Camp. And I had a meeting with the guys, and they were saying, oh, you know, and a lot of times in ministry, I think I mentioned this, a lot of times in ministry, you know, oh, Satan is attacking. Satan's attacking.

I just, first question I ask, well, who allowed that? Who allowed that? You did. Huh? You did. No. Who allowed if Satan is attacking you? Oh, Satan. Who allowed that? God. God did. God did? Yeah. God did. Is God sovereign? In control? If God's sovereign and in control, then how does Satan attack you? God allows it. And why does God allow that? Why does he allow it? to draw closer for your growth.

What do you do when you defeat an enemy? What's the first thing you do? What do you do with an enemy? Give them stuff. Yeah, give them stuff. You rebuild and, yeah. No, no, no. Yeah. Boy, this is a crowd today that's focused on the Lord, I can tell. Yeah, have a party. No, what do you do? You put them to work. You know, when you conquer a country, you make them work for you.

Well what happens when Satan is defeated, God uses him and allows him for his purposes to do whatever. So when somebody's telling you you're being attacked by Satan, just ask them that very question, who allowed it? And if they say, well Satan, well then God's not sovereign, God is not in control. He just automatically said, can't be me, can't be me, can't be me. I didn't even want to go there, but that's true. That's even a further question. How do you know it's Satan? Satan's omnipresent. Oh wait, no, no. So it was just your day. Out of all the people, it was your day. He was busy the last week, but it's your day today. Are you that threatening to his victory? I don't know. See, I wouldn't even go there.

God's allowing him to attack you, but it's not... He rules here, but who has the victory? If you're so special that Satan's going to, out of his busy schedule, find you and attack you, You know, I don't even, you know, it's really the Adamic man in you, your sin nature, you know, that whatever's going on. And he allows different things. I think, you know, and there are challenges. I don't believe, it may be Satan, if it's your day or whatever, I don't know. But it's, he's in control of all things. So these things happen for your growth, regardless. And everything, and that's where I wanted to... I kind of jumped off on a blitz of things when I was doing this.

Do we understand God's view, or God's point of view in all circumstances? No. If not, why not? Usually because your own view gets in the way. Yeah. So, your own view gets in the way. So, how do you know what the right view is, or his? His word. Or, Queen of Sheba, you enter in. You start to understand who God is, who the Lord is. How do you do that? Beholding as in a mirror. What's the mirror? Word. If you get into your Word and you understand who He is, you understand what's going on in your life. If you understand who He is, then you understand.

And this is where I kind of started writing verses down that I was starting to go through. Well, at one other point, if we continually receive blessings from God, do we, like Joseph's brother, do we need to fear God? if he's constantly taking care of us, do we need to fear him? No. No. Like Joseph's brothers, he was, you know, 17 years of care, and then he suddenly, you know, we have moment-by-moment care of us, and yet do we fear God? And I think a lot of times we do, just like Joseph's brothers. You know, we're just waiting for the hammer to come down.

So, I went off, I just started going. I started going crazy. That's why I wanted to finish this one. Lots of thoughts. Romans 8, 15 through 7. 17, excuse me. 15 through 17. These are just my blitz of entering in. And do we have fear? What is that extra thing we need to do to feel worthy? Romans 8, 15-17, for you have not received a spirit of slavery, leading to fear again, but you have what? You have received a spirit of adoption as sons, by which we cry out, Abba, Father, Daddy, Daddy. The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are what? Children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God, and fellow heirs with Christ. Do you believe that? Do you believe you're an heir? A full adult heir of God?

Do you feel comfortable going to the Father saying, Daddy? Yes. You should. The other thing, you have to come with flowery words. How do you talk to your dad? I mean, when he was alive or whatever. You go, oh daddy, oh daddy. Do you do that? You go, what are you talking about? Tell me, what are you talking about? I say, are you drinking? No, but you don't.

And it took me a long, I think I told you about this with the old brethren. We had a breaking bread where we'd share. And I remember when I was a young believer, All these old guys who were just eloquent in their prayers. That was cool. It was great. So I thought, man, I cannot share because I'm not in league with these guys. I'm not in league with these guys who can just, with great prose, go out.

Until I figured out, do I go to my dad like that? Do I go to my dad and have to say, in perfect prose, my request? It's in outline form, and here it is. No, you don't. Then I relax, and who am I talking to? I'm talking to my daddy. And I talk just like I'm talking to you. You don't need to put it in triplicate form, in beautiful, with scripture verses behind it, everything. You don't need to do that.

We have intimacy with God the Father. We're heirs. Going on, same thing, Galatians 4, 6-7. What? Because you are sons. Because of this, since you are sons, God has sent forth the spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son. And if a son, then an heir through God. Do you believe that? Have you entered in like the Queen of Sheba, is your breath taken away? I'm a son of God. Do you believe that?

You go in and enter in and behold, back to our key verse, 2 Corinthians 3.18, be beholden as dad.

Romans 8.37-39, but in all these things for But in all these things, we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For what? I am convinced, are you convinced?

That neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things that come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will what? Will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. When Satan's attacking. when you have trials.

Did that separate you from God and His love? No! Was there something on the list that said, except on Friday, Monique, you're separated from the love? We had a little caveat, read the fine print, you missed it. No, all these things, you cannot be separated from the love of God. So, when trials or Satan attacks you, Are you separated from his love? No, you are not. You are not separated from his love.

That's why there are so many things. The peace that surpasses all understanding. Where do you get that from? Knowing this? That you're never separated from his love in any trial? Having a mind explosion with all this, you know. The James 1. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials. Do you do that? How can you enjoy trials? Because you know you're not separated from His love. You know that He doesn't change. There's no shifting shadow that goes on later. Shifting shadow. You have all this stuff. How can you have joy in trials?

Because you know you're never separated from His love. You know that He's in control. You know all these things. That's the circle that Mike goes through, that he was talking about? Right. What's the first thing? God love me. That's where it starts. And then what, Mike? Then I love him. Okay. Me, he loves, I love, then? I obey him. I obey him. Why do you obey him? It's amazing how this works. It's amazing. All right, and then I went off, which I loved, which one we went through in John. John 17, 20 through 24.

I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in me through their word. This is when the Lord, in the real Lord's prayer, this is where we get included. This is where he's talking about us now. that they may all be one, even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you sent me. The glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one, just as we are one, I in them, you in me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that you sent me, and love them, even as you have loved me. Do you believe that? Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, be with me where I am, so that they may see my glory which you have given me, for you love me before the foundation of the world.

Love, unity, together, have you entered into that? Have you behold him? As in Amir, the scripture, do you behold him? Is your breath taken away? Do you have the knowledge and understanding of who is the one who blesses you daily, moment by moment? Do you have that understanding as we can cry out, Abba, Father? Do you have that rest? Do you have the peace that surpasses all understanding?

Have you entered in like the Queen of Sheba, now with unveiled face, unlike Moses, and beheld the Lord, which will transform you? Like Joseph's brothers who spent 17 years receiving blessings from the Lord, but do not know him. What keeps you from beholding him and then being transformed into the very image of the one you behold? Stone silence. Not really believing how low we're really falling. It's not entering in. It's not beholding. If you behold, your breath's taken away. And then you have the peace, the rest.

You can't help but have that. If you know the love of the Lord, you know you can't be separated from it, you know grace is unmerited, there's nothing I can do, that's why I said, what more do you need to do to feel worthy? What is it that you need to add to this equation to make you feel worthy? If it is, then I think you got issues with the Lord. That he didn't quite finish it. He didn't quite do enough. You needed to add your little two cents in. Think about that one. Alright, now, probably off the record. Cut the tape now. I told Mike I wanted to do this.

And this is going to be a little embarrassing. Not embarrassing, but... This will put you on the spot a little bit. We've talked, and we've been going through grace, we've gone through identification of grace. I want to go around a little bit. I'm going to ask you some specific people. Hopefully you'll volunteer. But what is it, in your words, to live under grace?

You know, it's like we've talked about. We're going to run into people in heaven that have the books all about describing the Lord, and they bump into the Lord and walk right by Him. They have great knowledge, but they don't know who He is. What is it to live under grace? What does that mean to you?

We've been studying grace for a long time. You know, I think I've said it a couple times in Mike's teaching. What does living under grace at 3.15 today mean? Two o'clock tomorrow afternoon. What does it mean? Anybody want to volunteer? I'm going to call on people. I hate that. I don't want to do that, but... I would just say...

You know, like you had said, abiding in Him, entering in with Him, but trusting Him and believing that Jesus said that we're part of that group that's in Him. His body that's destined for heaven. Rest in that. A lot of words I like in that. Debbie, I'm going to call on you. I just think of his overwhelming love and I always like picture illustrations and it's like, and I think I've told you this before, but it's like when we were circling and you've got this vast ocean around you and it represents the Lord. There's so much love that when I went in I was hyperventilating. It was just very overwhelming.

And no matter what I do, He always loves me. No matter what. Perfect. Others? Before I call on you. I'd say for me, it's just total security. Security. Because no matter what I do, I'm still a child of God. I mean, I struggled for so many years worrying about losing my salvation. So once I understood that, it's just total freedom and security. Yeah. Good. I think the identification truths got me out of the fear of losing my salvation.

I think I told you, John 10, 28 was always my anchor verse when I got nervous. That's one, how can I climb out of the hand of God? I can't crawl out. He's got me. And I kept thinking, oh, that's it. I'm going to crawl out of here someday. No, you can't. And I never had that doubt. It was like, under the identification truths, I'm a new creature in Christ. New. In Christ. Completely new. So, how do I get out of being a new life? I can't. I gotta crawl back, you know, go through death back.

It seems like your security blanket is always there. It's a comfort. It's just a calm. You're just a different person. That's right. The peace that surpasses all understanding. Donna. I guess at this stage, I would say it's more the sovereignty side that is impressing to me. Like I know Mike loves me 100%.

But yet he's not sovereign, so he's still subject. Oh boy, you just rocked his boat for the day. But yet our father is. So regardless of the circumstances, You don't ever have to question, and I find I do a lot. I think that goes to Hal's thing. Is there ever a tragedy in a Christian's life? Yeah, and the reality of that. There may be tests. There will be tests. There are tests. Consider it all during the moment. When you encounter. Not if. When. So that I think is... You know, the sovereignty part, I think, gives you peace. Because it doesn't matter what's going on. That's why I say, when I love to disarm people who, Satan's attacking me. Well, if God's sovereign, he let it happen.

It wasn't, oops, you know, miss that. So... Rest in acceptance. Rest in, oh, rest in acceptance. I like that. Yeah, the acceptance part, you know, that's why I said this humble bit. Well, it's just to know that It doesn't matter what I'm doing. The unmerited part. The unmerited part. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It's just there. You know how restful that is, knowing that you don't have to do anything more? There isn't anything you can do to make him a little bit more happy with you? No. Yeah. It's restful. Alright.

You knew I was coming here. Instead of the security issue, I had problems with that before I came here. I think grace was the one that found me. I realized there was nothing I could do. But it had to be grounded in scripture before I could believe it. People had given me scripture before, but it didn't solve the security issue. So security. Good. Mike!

One is, at first, when you become a believer, the issue is your acceptance before God, your sinfulness, and your conscience really has condemned you. So you learn through the grace of salvation, your conscience gets relieved. You're okay. Some people have said, well it doesn't matter what I do, my conscience is okay, I'm not convicted anymore. But then, like others have mentioned, which is, do I really know his heart? Do I really know that? I can have a relieved conscience and have no...

Like Joseph's brothers, they kind of, you know, as soon as their father died, their consciences started to say, oh, Joseph is going to come down on this. And Joseph's whole viewpoint was, well, you don't know my heart. And so I think that believers, as they grow from a relieved conscience, then they begin to find out the heart of the father and how he really does what he thinks and his attitude and his feelings towards you and you respond. And that's really what beholding does. It makes you aware of the fact that God loves me. I really know, I'm beginning to know his heart about me. which changes my whole attitude about everything that I see, because if I really am, like Romans 8, 35 verses, if I really know the love of God, who could separate?

There's nothing, and so it's not a negative thing, it's a positive, and I go out from there hoping that I can express the heart of my Father to others. Well, April, I'm going to get a few more. I don't know, every time I discuss the grace issue, the passage that always comes up is John 15 about where I live, where I lie. And if I'm in April land doing whatever I want to do, obviously I'm under law and under my own self and I'm sin, but when I turn my focus really work on the relationship with the Lord, that's where it's full on all the time.

You lose sight of that in the daily operation of life. It's always been constant. You're trying to do the stuff, so to speak, but if you just rest and abide in what Christ has already done, that grace is full on all the time. And it's rest, you see, it's rest. You know, there are a lot of things.

Like growing, you know, I love 2 Peter 3.18, to grow in the grace and knowledge. How they go together, grow. That means, you know, you're always growing. It's something that never ends. which I think is great. But it's growing the grace and knowledge together. As you have the knowledge, behold, as in a mirror, you'll grow in grace.

As you understand who the Lord is. And I think positionally, April, kind of what you touched on, positionally... So sorry, Mike. This is only going to be 20 minutes. You know, he knows me. I always do this. It's grace. Yeah, it's grace. We exhibit grace all the time. Except it's your time to pay next time at lunch. Hold on. You know, I think it is positionally...

Who are we in? Christ. Where is Christ? In heaven. Where? In the Father. Next to the Father. So where are we positionally? next to the Father, positionally. So, positionally, you know where you're at. Then, conditionally, I like how, if we understand where we're at, it's an upside-down tree.

Where are your roots? Up there, in heaven. So our roots are there. and the tree's upside down going this way. Leaves rustle and we get rustled around down here, but the roots are where? In heaven. Your roots are in heaven. So when the trials come, whatever, your roots are secure, never to be moved, never to be changed, in heaven. The leaves may rustle down here, but the roots are in heaven.

Again, I think of the peace, the rest, all those things. All the words a lot of you use, it's peace, rest, security, all those things. I think it again stems... Mike and I have talked about this, and I think I've convinced them. The identification is really the key, I think. Once you have that identification, you have security.

When you know you're a new creature in Christ, how can you get out? You're a new creature in Christ. You still have the old man, two natures in you until we step out of these shells here. But you're a new creature in Christ. And as you do that and you enter in, what that means, you're in Christ. Look through the scripture if you have a program or something. Do the in hymns in Christ and look at how many times in the epistles it says this great promise or fact But it's based on what? Being in Him. If you're in Him, you have a new life, new creature, then what do you have to do to earn a little more favor? What do you have to do?

This is also between law and grace. Law. What are we messing around with law? I mean, there's so many verses that say, we are what? Are we alive unto the law? Dead. You know, and so when you put it in perspective, we've done this and it's kind of morbid, I guess.

You know, when somebody dies, are they still subject to the laws of speeding and the U.S. Constitution and all that? Are they still subject to that? No. So, you have what? What is Romans 6? You have died, been crucified. You're now a new creature in Christ, Corinthians. So are we dead to the law? Do you understand? How are we subject to that law anymore if we have died? Are you still subject to the 55 mile an hour speed limit if you're dead? Nope. In the hearse you are. The driver is. Not you. The driver is. So again, the identification, if we're new creatures in Christ, we're not under the law, we're under what? Grace, which gives us unbelievable liberty. unbelievable freedom.

You know in the Genesis part about Joseph, the thing when you were reading that I thought about was those 17 years that those brothers probably weren't totally enjoying because they had to be continually wondering, boy when dad dies we're done. I've got a bat ready for you. You know, once daddy's gone It wasn't just when he died, it was that whole time they had. They never really relaxed. No, the clock was ticking. Dad's looking a little weak.

They made sure he was healthy. I find it interesting that the discussion is about everything that he has done for us. and to us. We've been crucified, buried and resurrected, and we have this standing. The question that comes to my mind though is that as I grow as a believer, will I find Christ to be enough for me? Just Him, personally. Is He enough to satisfy my heart? Not what He can do for me, or what He has done for me. Is He just enough to fill my heart up? And the answer is, Yeah, that's when I discovered that he's way more than enough to the point that he supplants things here that had taken up space in my heart before.

Yeah, you know I think of that a lot of times, you know, and we talk about this, you know, I have my own business. What if the Lord took the business away? Am I okay with that? Still got the Lord. Still got the Lord. If the Lord takes your spouse away, If the Lord takes your mom or dad away, if the Lord fill in the blank, no matter what. He's always there to give you comfort. If your life is His life, is that enough? It is. That's the growing. Once you start realizing that, no matter what, it's the Lord's life. And what does that mean? What does Ephesians say? We have been what? Blessed with a little few blessings here and there on Saturday night. With all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies. What more do you want? All. You've been given his very life. What more do you want? What more do you need?

Yeah, there'll be things that he'll, you know, if, like I said, if he takes the business away, It's not going to be pleasant, but I have a peace knowing what he saw when he's in control. Have I been separated from his love? No. Is there something that he just, oops, missed it. Courtney, oh, your business? I'm sorry. No. I don't. But you know, you do sometimes worry. You do sometimes worry, and you have to be reminded. You know, let's just say that, gosh, things are really looking up bad, almost broke. You know, an example. So you do worry. You have to be stupid not to.

But you have to remember that it's all for the good. I think, yeah, there are things, but you have the peace and surpass all understanding in that situation. It doesn't mean that you just sit in your room and go, okay, Lord bless me, I will do nothing. No. He gave you a brain, he gave you reasoning, he gave you things. You do those, but you rest in the fact that he's in control of all these things. Anyway, we've got to quit. I'm sorry.

All right, Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time. Father, we thank you just for looking into what grace means and living under grace. There are so many words that came out, peace, rest, security, position, where we are. All these things, they are all part of grace, and we thank you. grow in both the grace and knowledge of you that as we learn look at the Corinthians second Corinthians as we behold in a mirror we will be Transformed we will be transformed. We thank you for that from glory to glory. We thank you in Jesus name. Amen